Rich Siegel thanks for connect- plz watch my video, 12 minutes, song followed by 2 short talks http://www.vimeo.com/6630724Sarah Levine Simon Rich we will have to agree to disagree. Too many Israelis including my friends and relatives have lost their lives at the hands of Palestinian extremist. Wish there was a simple solution but when people want to kill jews and hide behind innocent children, the result is what you sing about. Rich Siegel That’s pure propaganda. The one’s who use children as human shields are the IDF. Sarah Levine Simon I disagree! Rich Siegel That’s fine, but the documented facts are not on your side. Sarah Levine Simon I also disagree there. I know the history of the situation. The British are in large part responsible for the creation of situation. and Ha ha! Now their erudite academic institutions would like to prevent Israeli Scholars from lecturing. This is just recycled antisemitism. Rich Siegel You can say you know whatever you want, but clearly you don’t know. I’ve been studying the situation for a long time- own a pretty impressive library on the subject- lived there and worked there. So your claim that you know anything is frankly meaningless. You could tell me you know that water is not wet. OK fine- you can think what you want.Sarah Levine Simon Don’t trust every book you collect. Learn to argue without the ad hominem attack. You’ll do more to further your agenda right or wrong. Are you a Jew?Rich Siegel Did you watch the video? It clearly states that I’m a Jew. Circumcised, Hebrew School, bar mitzvah, president of Zionist youth group as a teenager, lived and worked in “Israel” in my 20’s- yes I’m a Jew. re: books- I have read BOTH SIDES extensively. And I recommend anyone do this- including you. When one examines both points of view it becomes clear who is obfuscating and who is telling the truth. Sarah Levine Simon Frankly, your attempt at sampling put me off. You could be a propagandist plant. Right now you exist in cyberspace for me. I have read both sides and I did make up my mind, so thanksRich Siegel To be fair I’m re-reading what I wrote looking for an ad hominem attack and I’m not finding any. Could you be specific as to what you object to? I believe I’m simply not letting you get away with stating falsehoods. As for your last comment, you can believe what you want. I assure you I am exactly as I represent myself. That’s me in the video, I have a new CD coming out soon which will contain relevant material. Also a new book, a sort of political auto-biography, and an essay in a friends book- that book is a collection of essays by Jews who were raised as Zionists and who have become pro-Palestine activists as adults.Sarah Levine Simon I’m very troubled by the statement to the effect that when one examines both sides it becomes clear who is obfuscating. You make statements that you never back with facts. If you were in my class I’d flunk you. Moreover, let me tell you something about music. I love Wagner and Wolf, two of the most virulent anti semites that ever existed. Why? Because really good music supercedes dialectic and propaganda. Your are limiting your musical expression to a political idea and you are missing out on a lot of possibility.Rich Siegel posted on your wall- my response was too long- was not allowed to post hereSarah Levine Simon You can send that to sarah@sarahlevinesimon.com . For me FB is about the music and recipe sharing. I want to address what you are saying but not on FB. Rich Siegel OK- but it’s on your wall already- won’t do it again- you can respond to me at rich@richsiegel.comSarah Levine Simon Good. I removed it from my wall and not because I disagree with you but because I am not using my wall to hold town hall meetings.Rich Siegel That’s fine, but I can’t re-send it as I didn’t save it anywhere, so if you read it and care to respond, you can respond to rich@richsiegel.com If not, I’m not going to write it again- I did what you asked, but I’m not going to take the time to write up the same argument twice. Also- your point about limiting musical expression is completely ridiculous. Music has been used to promote human rights causes throughout history. Why should YOU be the one to stop it?! There is power in music- you will see when my CD comes out.Sarah Levine Simon I’m not saying stop it, just saying it limits the music to the cause. You could argue that Tosca promotes a human rights agenda and you’d be right, just saying music that’s great is timeless and supercedes the issues of the day. And frankly that’s why great music endures. Also, If you were so facile in your facts, it would be no bother for you to rewrite your post. Rich Siegel “Also, If you were so facile in your facts, it would be no bother for you to rewrite your post.” The first really obnoxious thing you wrote was that I exist only in cyber-space. Now this is the 2nd. I’m not sure how you found me. I assume through mutual friends who are involved in music. You are probably re-thinking the advisability of having “friended” me. However, I would say, that if you do want to continue to be “friends” in this format, be respectful and polite. I have no patience for anything else. Thank you.Sarah Levine Simon Actually you requested my friendship. I don’t defriend because I disagree with someone. At the outset, I said, “let’s agree to disagree.” I also don’t dislike my close friends who disagree with me. There’s more to life than that. I believe I have been polite and respectful. It is logical to ask if someone exists beyond the cyber persona. Remember the Amanda Chapel debacle on FB. or Ni Personne.Rich Siegel OK- Honestly I do not remember sending that request. I normally would not send a request to someone I don’t know. Your message which asked “let’s agree to disagree” also included propaganda nonsense. If you really wanted to let it go at “let’s agree to disagree” you would not have included this

Hitler would have loved these sick, radical, leftist Judenrat bastards.

Self-hating Jewish loons from Jewish Voice for Peace held a protest in Chicago against Israel. The protesters believe that Israel does not have a right to exist and that Israel needs to get the F**k out. But they love the people who want to wipe them off the face of the earth – Palestinians. Obama would approve.

In an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post, Nahshon said Grosser’s “extreme opinions are tainted by self-hatred.”

The Israeli Embassy has gone on the offensive to counter the growing efforts in Germany to delegitimize the Jewish state.

German governments – including local and regional ones – frequently give anti-Zionist and anti-Israel Jews prizes and speaking engagements to vent criticism of Israel. Last year, then- German president Horst Köhler issued the Federal Merit Cross, one of the country’s most prestigious awards, to Israeli lawyer Felicia Langer, who has equated Israel with Nazi Germany and the South African apartheid regime.

Speaking from France, Grosser, a sociologist, political scientist and historian born to a German- Jewish family in Frankfurt in 1925, told the Post in a telephone interview that he stands by his statement that “criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism have nothing to do with each other.

It is rather Israel’s policies that promote anti-Semitism globally.”

Grosser has compared his treatment by the Nazis in the early 1930s with Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. His family fled to France in 1933.

The “Palestinians are despised by Israel” and Israel has “no feeling for [the] suffering in Gaza and in the territories,” He told the Post.

“It’s all about understanding the suffering of others,” he said.

“This understanding generally does not exist on the part of Jews.”

Grosser said he plans to “criticize” Israel during his speech on Tuesday and to reference Theodor Herzl in saying that there should be “no discrimination by sex and religion” in Israel.

The speaking invitation has frayed relations between the city of Frankfurt and Germany’s Jewish community. The Central Council of Jews in Germany called for Grosser to be disinvited.

The Frankfurt Jewish community issued a statement, saying, “In recent years, he has represented escalating positions that are unacceptable for us.”

Recently Shimon Peres suggested that Israelis and Jews worldwide use Facebook to fight anti-semitism in addition to inviting Mark Zuckerberg to Israel. I asked him about his thoughts on Facebook as a tool to fight anti-semitism and if Facebook would take proactive measures to fight against it. Mark believes that Facebook needs to focus on building useful communication tools and that the users can use these tools to connect and generate more worldly perspectives. As such Facebook does not need to be proactive about it. When asked about whether he will visit Israel next year, he said maybe. from: allfacebook.com via thejidf.org

The Internet is very shocked and upset that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was kind of weird and also creepy, back in college. Specifically, according to Business Insider, Zuckerberg used Facebook to get the email passwords of two Harvard Crimson reporters who were running a potentially damaging story about how Zuckerberg maybe stole ideas from these other two social network entrepreneurs. Business Insider is reporting that “he examined a log of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. If the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members’ Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed two of them.” What he found was that the reporters thought he was kind of weird and creepy:

From: Elisabeth Susan Theodore To: Timothy John McGinn Subject: Re: Follow-up OK, he did seem very sleazy. And I thought that some of his answers to the questions were not very direct or open. I also thought that his reaction to the website was very very weird. But, even if it’s true so what? It’s an [redacted] thing not odd but it’s not illegal, right?

So, in other words, some sleazy dude used Facebook to violate the privacy of some people he disliked. Has Facebook ever been used for any other purpose?

Freedom has become a very loose term, now used by the Left to attack every principle of our free society.It is now clear that the degenerate Israeli, mostly the Leftist, “progressive,” elite academia is on rampage to attack the country from which it operates.

The worst case is when Jews go against other Jews . I call such doubtful Jews, unJews.

The unJew organizations, such as J Street and J-Call as well as individuals such as Shlomo Sand, Neve Gordon, and Gershon Baskin, Tel Aviv University president, Professor Joseph Klafter and the like, can all be lumped into one new “J” name, this time, “J Rats”, a name derives from the derogative term Judenrat.

For those who are not familiar with the meaning of the term Judenrat, plural Judenräte, in the German language its meaning is “Jewish council.” These were administrative bodies Nazi Germans required of the Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland and later in the occupied territories of the Russia/Soviet Union. The Judenrat served as a liaison between the Nazi German occupying authorities and the Jewish communities under occupation. The Judenrat operated pre-existing Jewish communal properties such as hospitals, soup kitchens, day care centers, and vocational schools. Though in a number of cases, such as the Minsk Ghetto and Lachwa Ghetto, Judenrats cooperated with the Resistance Movement, in most other cases, Judenrats collaborated with the Nazis, on the basis that cooperation might save the lives of the ghetto inhabitants, more so to save their lives only. Therefore, the word Judenrat attained derogative connotation.

In their false claim to be helping the State of Israel, or along their thinking that the State should adopt their suggested policy, J-Rats collaborate with and aid and abet Israel’s enemies. Such ongoing efforts subvert the State and derail its sovereignty.